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Apostolate The word “Apostolate” comes from “apostle”, which means “sent”. Either we are apostles, carry on the mission entrusted to us by somebody else, or what we do is not apostolate. Apostles: let us see what the gospel of Mark says (3:13-15): “He chose 12 of them to: To stay with him To be sent To proclaim To have power over the devil The number 4 refers directly to our social activities in which we fight against the structures of evil, and of course the forms of it can change as much as possible because the needs of people change; but this point has to keep always present the other three and be based on them and at the service of them. The first three will never be changed and if they are not present than we do not have apostolate but a mere social work. How Jesus did apostolate Mk 6:34 “He felt pity on them”. Fully concentrating in it because of love. Mt 15:32: he is the one who does everything for them He felt pity because they were like sheep without shepherd...

From the writings of Don Orione Prayer I cannot tell you how much good that quarter of an hour's stop during the course of life and that silent meditation did me. From that the thought was born of writing you a letter on silence. From that the idea was born of making use of an hour of complete silence each day. Half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the evening. And if God gives me the grace, I want from now on more seriously to nurture my spirit in the school of silence, and to give my life, every day and every year, the word, the repose and the comfort in Christ of silence: my strength will be in silence and in hope!* ................ Silence opens the fountains of the soul, silence makes our spirit work in us, more than many years of reading. It gives impulse to our inner being and illuminates both the soul and the body. The hours of silence are, for the most part, a prayer; a prayer which gives a great moral power and makes fruitful, both these hours and...